Our right to live free from harm. Our responsibility to heal, and be free.
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This blog explores trauma, pain, and healing. It ambles towards dark parts of you, me, us. Dances and meets you there. Here we do the god damned fucking thing -- relive and release pain. I share big gaping pieces of myself, and maybe you do too. (...)
Material insecurity of any kind has reverberations for our emotional and spiritual well-being.
Material insecurity and fear at a global level takes a really strong mind and heart to move through(...)
But sometimes, the best spiritual resource in the world can't hold a candle to the daily work you can do, on your own, with your own mind and emotions.
No big flashy spiritual moments. Just the quiet magic of showing up for yourself day after day. (...)
Tonglen became my saving grace. I started small: every time a siren went by my house, I imagined what might be happening and breathed in those people’s suffering: their sadness, or fear, or loss. I breathed out what little I felt I had: a roof over my head, stable employment, and my own present calm, wishing for them to feel that too.
What happened was fairly miraculous. Instead of closing off to the pain that something was wrong, I felt closer to the people who needed help. I felt worried about them and hoped that my tiny prayer would give them a small amount of peace, somehow. I imagined myself in their shoes. I felt a small amount of what they might be feeling, in my body — not taking on so much that I felt overwhelmed, but whatever small amount that I could absorb and diffuse with my peace and positive intention. (...)
No one said the moon has to be a she. The moon can have whatever fucking pronouns you want, because the moon is a fundamentally ungendered celestial body.
One that all of us have a relationship to. (...)
I had the honor of telling my story on The Truth Paradigm, an incredible new podcast that interviews people to "uncover the collective insights and breakthrough moments that ignite authenticity, meaning, and fulfillment." (...)
I had already begun to experience the magic of yoga to facilitate the energy flow up and down the spine and through all seven chakras. But I realized that at a deeper level, if I couldn't feel the sensation in my pelvic bowl and vagina from the inside, I wouldn't be able to pull energy through them fully. And I longed to feel energy melt into this part of my body. (...)
Sexual dysfunctions like vaginismus don't get talked about enough. And when they do, it's pathologizing and cisheteronormative medical discourse without discussion of its deeper potential emotional, psychic, and spiritual components. My experience as a queer, non-binaryish, spiritual vagina-haver with complex-PTSD is a necessary corrective to these narratives. So here goes everything. (...)
I wonder: how many times a day do we swat at what bothers us?
There is a metaphor here for how we relate to what's irksome. A pesky gloom. An inconvenient sadness. A jerk in traffic. An overcast day.
Do we treat our irritant as a teacher delivering a lesson in patience? Or do we instinctively swat it away like we do bugs? (...)
Thinking about space can give us perspective: remind us of the huge reality beyond our small, personal concerns. Space makes us feel small. But what if space could make us feel big, too? (...)
Freedom from Trauma 